One detained for uploading private footage of Georgian politician on YouTube
Deputy Interior Minister Natia Mezvrishvili says that statements of opposition members encourage private footage-related crimes. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
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One person has been detained for uploading the private footage of a Georgian politician on YouTube late yesterday, Deputy Interior Minister Natia Mezvrishvili said.
She stated that the individual had no private motivation to upload the video, and, consequently, the crime had no client.
An ordinary citizen has been detained for uploading the footage,” Mezvrishvili said.
She stated that the opposition encourages the crime when they say that particular offences related to private footage are less serious.
It is wrong to say that sending such videos is a less serious crime than it is to upload them. The opposition must understand that such statements encourage the crime,” Mezvrishvili said.
Eighteen individuals were detained for the possession and distribution of the private footage of MP Eka Beselia in February 2019.
four out of 17 detained were sent to pre-trial detention, while 14 have been released on bail.
Recording, storing and distributing footage related to an individual's personal and intimate life is a crime which is punishable by imprisonment from four to eight years.
The Georgian Interior Ministry is very likely to request help from foreign partners to investigate leak of a private life footage, featuring Georgian Dream MP Eka Beslia.
Zurab Solomonashvili who was sentenced to imprisonment is accused in uploading the footage on YouTube. Other seven person were accused in spreading the footage via social network and messaging apps.
One has been detained for uploading intimate private footage on YouTube after the statement of Georgian Dream ruling party MP Eka Beselia, who said on 28 January that footage of her personal life recorded under the United National Movement leadership had gone viral. The individual has acknowledged his guilt in the matter.
Georgia Dream ruling party member Eka Beselia, who left the post of the head of the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee at the end of December, says that she is facing a moral terror as footage of her personal life has gone viral.
Four individuals detained back in February 2019 for the possession and distribution of the personal footage of MP Eka Beselia, have been released on bail after the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to the court.
Georgian Interior Ministry says that they have identified and charged an individual who was the first to make private footage of Georgian MP Eka Beselia go viral back in January 2019. The ministry says that the individual is a Georgian citizen who is currently imprisoned in Armenia on murder charges.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has detained an individual for illegally filming and secretly keeping a video depicting the private life of a female acquaintance in the eastern Georgian municipality of Marneuli.